Forty-One Lingers in the Moment

April 28, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology at 41.

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A psychological number poem for a forty-one year old tortured by memories:

Forty-one lingers in the moment,

Opening an oft-unopen door.

Revelation enters with the wind,

Telling him again what love is for,

Yet not without a twist of hidden torment.

One sometimes looks for content in contentment,

Never sure, of course, what one might find,

Even when the truth lies far from shore.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology at 41

4/27: Forty-One Is Filled with Precious Longing

4/28: Forty-One Lingers in the Moment

Forty-One Is Filled with Precious Longing

April 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology at 41.

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A psychological number poem about the inborn need for longing:

Forty-one is filled with precious longing,

Overcome by sea and earth and sky.

Reason sees no reason for such yearning,

Though the heart knows well the reason why.

Years like fantasies flow swiftly by.

Only in that inner, restless burning,

Need like waves receding and returning,

Eloquent and spare, is the reply.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology at 41

4/27: Forty-One Is Filled with Precious Longing

No One Is the Author of This Poem

April 26, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is faith.

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A poem using itself as a metaphor for a soul:

No one is the author of this poem,

Operating by itself alone:

Offering itself the gift of grace,

Needing but the smile upon its face,

Effervescence bubbling up from stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

4/20: Proverbs on Faith

4/21: Lynnette likes Tigers, Roses, Navy Blue

4/22: Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain

4/23: People Who Are Certain Are a Curtain

4/24: Remember, Too, the Holy Month of Fasting

4/25: Light Eludes the Latitudes of Longing

4/26: No One Is the Author of This Poem

Light Eludes the Latitudes of Longing

April 25, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is faith.

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A poem comparing those who choose to believe with those who choose not to:

Light eludes the latitudes of longing.

A part of us is always in the darkness,

Ever -- and thus never -- yet to be.

Ripped from One, we hunger for belonging,

But choose not to surrender our own oneness,

Protecting the sweet sense that we are free.

Some would rather melt into the light,

Consumed by love, certain of their faith,

Yet never, never quite completely home.

Some prefer the precincts of the night,

Haunted by a homeless, helpless wraith

Who yet retains the latitude to roam.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

4/20: Proverbs on Faith

4/21: Lynnette likes Tigers, Roses, Navy Blue

4/22: Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain

4/23: People Who Are Certain Are a Curtain

4/24: Remember, Too, the Holy Month of Fasting

4/25: Light Eludes the Latitudes of Longing

Remember, Too, the Holy Month of Fasting

April 24, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is faith.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem for Ramadan about the transformative power of a moment of faith:

Remember, too, the holy month of fasting.

Absorb the word of God like burning sand.

Make yourself through prayer a single yearning,

A single breath of faith, a single turning,

Dawn to dusk a diamond in God's hand.

A moment of pure faith is everlasting,

Nor need one know aught else to understand.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

4/20: Proverbs on Faith

4/21: Lynnette likes Tigers, Roses, Navy Blue

4/22: Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain

4/23: People Who Are Certain Are a Curtain

4/24: Remember, Too, the Holy Month of Fasting

People Who Are Certain Are a Curtain

April 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is faith.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem about faith and certainty:

People who are certain are a curtain

Draped between the object and the word.

One sees only formulas repeated

Tirelessly, like stones thrown at the wind.

Such faith is evidence of little faith,

For faith knows very well it cannot know.

Doubt becomes a glass through which one sees

A star or two between fast-moving clouds.

A truth will never last as long as Truth,

For truths must be devoured before they melt.

One may believe, of course, but not too tightly;

When one looks, one sees one's God is free.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

4/20: Proverbs on Faith

4/21: Lynnette likes Tigers, Roses, Navy Blue

4/22: Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain

4/23: People Who Are Certain Are a Curtain

Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain

April 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is faith.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A philosophical and religious poem about how, despite inequalities of fate, all are loved equally:

Some are picked for pleasure, some for pain;

Some for pity, others for perfection.

Some are unfortunate, and so remain,

While some seem chosen for the gods' affection.

Some lose limbs or sanity or joy,

Stranded on the road from birth to death;

Some find all the world in their employ,

Riding through rich fields, the lords of breath.

But all are souls, and therefore lost at sea,

Lost, lost, and drowning in eternal grace;

And all must suffer the same agony

And vanish into time without a trace.

And all are loved, and lavished well with love,

And live within a love serene and good.

Fate may cruel or expeditious prove,

Yet one may dwell in glory if one would.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

4/20: Proverbs on Faith

4/21: Lynnette likes Tigers, Roses, Navy Blue

4/22: Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain